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Definition of Mole plant

1. Noun. Showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru.

2. Noun. Poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mole Plant

moldinesses molding moldings moldiwarp moldiwarps moldlike molds moldwarp moldwarps moldy

mole mole-eyed mole cricket mole crickets mole fraction mole plant (current term) mole rat mole rats mole run mole runs

mole salamander molebut molecast molecasts molecatcher molecatchers molech molecular molecular(a) molecular-engineering

Literary usage of Mole plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science ... with French and Other by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"mole plant, Euphorbia lathyris. MOLEC'ULAR, Molecula'rit. Of or belong. ing to molecules or minute portions of any thing. ..."

2. Annual Report (1894)
"Pursh, in writing of the plant in 1814, in his Flora of North America, says that "It is generally known in America by the name of Mole-plant, it -being ..."

3. A Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Science: A Guide for the Pharmaceutist by H. V. Sweringen (1882)
"A saffron growing at the Cape of Good Hope. CAPER PLANT. (mole plant. ... It is also called mole plant, under the impression that moles avoid the grounds ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Scott, Monastery, xxix. mole-plant (mol'plant), ». Same as mole-tree. mole-plow (möl'plou), n. A plow having a pointed iron shoe secured to the end of a ..."

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